Saturday, July 5, 2014
Friday, July 4, 2014
‘WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS YOUR FOURTH OF JULY?’
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| Occasion: Meeting sponsored by the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society, Rochester Hall, Rochester, N.Y. To illustrate the full shame of slavery, Douglass delivered a speech that took aim at the pieties of the nation -- the cherished memories of its revolution, its principles of liberty, and its moral and religious foundation. The Fourth of July, a day celebrating freedom, was used by Douglass to remind his audience of liberty’s unfinished business. |
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
...“What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence?”
Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us?...
...But, such is not the state of the case. I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct. And let me warn you that it is dangerous to copy the example of a nation whose crimes, lowering up to heaven, were thrown down by the breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrecoverable ruin! I can to-day take up the plaintive lament of a peeled and woe-smitten people!...
The speech was originally published as a pamphlet. It can be located in James M. Gregory’s, Frederick Douglass, the Orator (1893). More recent publications of the speech include Philip Foner’s, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass (1950) and The Frederick Douglass Papers (1982), edited by John W. Blassingame.
Full Text: Manhood, Race, and Culture - http://www.manhoodraceculture.com/2014/07/04/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july-frederick-douglass-speaks/ Accessed on 07/04/2014.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Monday, April 28, 2014
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
International Day of Remembrance of the Victim
International
Day of Remembrance of the Victims
of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
2014
Theme: “Victory over Slavery: Haiti and Beyond”
For
over 400 years, more than 15 million men, women and children were the victims
of the tragic Transatlantic Slave Trade, one of the darkest chapters in human
history.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade was the largest forced migration in history, and undeniably one of the most inhumane. the extensive exodus of Africans spread to many areas of the world over this 400-year period and was unprecedented in the annals of recorded human history.
As a direct result of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the greatest movement of Africans was to the Americas - with 96 per cent of the captives from the African coasts arriving on cramped slave ships at posts in South America and the Caribbean Islands.
From 1501 to 1830, four Enslaved Africans crossed the Atlantic for every one european, making the demographics of the Americas in that era more of an extension of the African diaspora than a european one. The legacy of this migration is still evident today, with large populations of people of African descent living throughout the Americas.
Every
year on 25 March, the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of
Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade offers the opportunity to honour
and remember those who suffered and died at the hands of the brutal slavery
system. The International Day also aims at raising awareness about the dangers
of racism and prejudice today.
Sources:
http://www.un.org/en/events/slaveryremembranceday/
http://www.unric.org/en/latest-un-buzz/29115-remember-honour-and-seek-change
Friday, February 7, 2014
On This Day In TCXPI History – We Must Never Forget! February 7, 1926 - Black History Week
Woodson chose the second week of February because it marked the birthdays of former President Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The week was later expanded and renamed Black History Month to celebrate important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. It is celebrated annually in February in the United States and Canada and in October in the United Kingdom.
As early as 1920, Woodson urged black civic organizations to promote the achievements that researchers were uncovering. A graduate member of Omega Psi Phi, he urged his fraternity brothers to take up the work. In 1924, they responded with the creation of Negro History and Literature Week, which they renamed Negro Achievement Week. Their outreach was significant, but Woodson desired greater impact. As he told an audience of Hampton Institute students, “We are going back to that beautiful history and it is going to inspire us to greater achievements.”
In 1925, he decided that the Association had to shoulder the responsibility. Going forward it would both create and popularize knowledge about the black past. He sent out a press release announcing Negro History Week in February, 1926.
Woodson chose February for reasons of tradition and reform. It is commonly said that Woodson selected February to encompass the birthdays of two great Americans who played a prominent role in shaping black history, namely Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, whose birthdays are the 12th and the 14th, respectively. More importantly, he chose them for reasons of tradition. Since Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, the black community, along with other Republicans, had been celebrating the fallen President’s birthday. And since the late 1890s, black communities across the country had been celebrating Douglass’.
Well aware of the pre-existing celebrations, Woodson built Negro History Week around traditional days of commemorating the black past. He was asking the public to extend their study of black history, not to create a new tradition. In doing so, he increased his chances for success.
Yet Woodson was up to something more than building on tradition. Without saying so, he aimed to reform it from the study of two great men to a great race.
Though he admired both men, Woodson had never been fond of the celebrations held in their honor. He railed against the “ignorant spellbinders” who addressed large, convivial gatherings and displayed their lack of knowledge about the men and their contributions to history. More importantly, Woodson believed that history was made by the people, not simply or primarily by great men.
He envisioned the study and celebration of the Negro as a race, not simply as the producers of a great man. And Lincoln, however great, had not freed the slaves—the Union Army, including hundreds of thousands of black soldiers and sailors, had done that. Rather than focusing on two men, the black community, he believed, should focus on the countless black men and women who had contributed to the advance of human civilization.
Source: http://www.asalh.org/blackhistorymonthorigins.html
Friday, January 31, 2014
TEN BEST LIES OF BLACK HISTORY
By the N.O.I. Research Group | Last updated: Jan 29,
2013 - 12:25:42 PM
1. Whites were
the first people on earth.
2. Blacks in
slavery were only cotton pickers and maids.
3. Lincoln freed
the slaves.
4. Blacks ate
each other in Africa.
5. Blacks were
cursed black by God.
6. The United
States government has helped Blacks succeed.
7. Jews built the
pyramids.
8. Blacks sold
other Blacks into slavery.
9. There was no
slavery in the North.
10. Columbus
discovered America.
Lie #1 - Whites
were the first people on earth.
As long as
Mendel’s Law is in effect Whites can never be the first humans. This is the law
of biology that asserts that White skin is recessive and Black skin is
dominant, which means that two Whites cannot produce anything darker than
themselves. This is why ALL those seeking the origin of human beings start and
end in Africa. Recent genetic tests by researchers at the University of Chicago
have proven that a major genetic alteration occurred exactly 6,600
years—exactly when Elijah Muhammad taught of the birth of the White race.
The scientists
say that “the selected genes, which affect skin color, hair texture and bone
structure,” were drastically affected at that very moment in time. Neanderthal
DNA is far more often found in Europeans and Asians than in Africans. If
Neanderthals predated ALL humans, their DNA would be MOST prevalent in
Africans. But not only were they first chronologically, Blacks were also the
first builders of Civilization. The black-skinned Egyptians had reached a high
state of civilization long before the Neanderthal—whose offspring yet wonders
how and why the pyramids were built—emerged from cave life. The White-skinned
nomadic Tamahu were a strange people to the Black Egyptians. They had no
apparent skill except trouble-making. Little did the Egyptians know what their
contact with the Tamahu would lead to.
Sources: Wayne B.
Chandler, “The Moor: Light of Europe’s Dark Age,” in The Golden Age of the
Moor, ed. Ivan Van Sertima, p. 156; Ivan Van Sertima, African Presence in Early
Europe, p. 149.
Lie #2 - Blacks
in slavery were only cotton pickers and maids.
Blacks were
desired so badly by White Europeans that they were willing to build thousands
of ships over hundreds of years to sail thousands of miles over treacherous
ocean to start wars with those Black people to capture them, bring them back
thousands of miles to enslave them forever, to serve Whites forever. Blacks had
built civilizations on the African continent that Whites hoped to build in
America. A close reading of the newspaper advertisements placed by American
slave dealers and slave traders shows that Blacks were skilled artisans and
craftsmen at the highest level. It is easy to find ads by White people selling
engineers, carpenters, mechanics, brick masons, nurses, blacksmiths,
seamstresses, and bakers.
Blacks so
dominated the building trades that after the so-called emancipation of 1863, it
was said that if a White man were seen doing ANY of this kind of work, it would
draw a crowd of gawking onlookers. Black slaves were on loan to build the
“President’s House” and the Capitol; Black slaves built the mansions that grace
Southern plantations. Black slave laborers built America’s infrastructure,
including its buildings, roads, bridges, and railways. Blacks built
America—just as they built the pyramids in Egypt—and then gave civilization to
the new man on earth, the European.
Sources: Nation
of Islam, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume 2 (2010);
Nation of Islam, Jews Selling Blacks (2010); Abby Gunn Baker, “The Erection of
the White House,” Records of the Columbia Historical Society, vol. 16 (1913);
William Seale, The President’s House (1986).
Lie #3 - Lincoln
freed the slaves.
Steven Spielberg
may believe it but it just ain’t true. A careful reading of Lincoln’s 1863
Emancipation Proclamation proves that it freed NOT A SINGLE SLAVE! In the
surprisingly short document only the slaves of “rebellious” states are ordered
to be freed; those states who were loyal to America got to keep their
Africans—as slaves! Thanks, Lincoln. The “Emancipation Proclamation” lists a
whole slew of places to be “left precisely as if this proclamation were not
issued.” At that time in history, Lincoln actually had no authority over the
states where he “freed” the slaves. They were part of another country—the
Confederate States of America—with an altogether different president, Jefferson
Davis. Lincoln himself was never hesitant to express his hatred of Black
people, like when he said: “As the negro is to the White man so is the
crocodile to the negro and as the negro may rightfully treat the crocodile as a
beast or a reptile so may the White man treat the negro as a beast or a
reptile.” It is White historians and Hollywood mythmakers who so desperately
needed to find an American Jesus to die for America’s racial sins. It is they
who have made Lincoln into something he never was or wanted to be—a martyr on
behalf of Black people.
Sources: Lerone
Bennett, Jr., Forced into Glory (2007); NOI Research Group, “Lincoln, Lies, and
Black Folk,” Pts. 1 and 2, The Final Call, Nov 27 & Dec. 6, 2012.
Lie #4 - Blacks
ate each other in Africa.
In The General
History of Virginia, Captain John Smith wrote that when famine struck his new
colony in Virginia in 1623 that the English settlers dug up “a savage we slew
and buried … and ate him.”
Another, wrote
Captain Smith, was “boiled and stewed with herbs.” And another White Virginian
“did kill his wife, powdered her and had eaten part of her.” And “many fed on
corpses.” These White Europeans—the early pioneers of America—were feeding on
Indians and each other! Themes of cannibalism have made it into European fairy
tales Hansel and Gretel, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Snow White. Accusations of
cannibalism were often used by Whites as justifications for the subjugation or
destruction of “savages” whose land or labor they wanted to steal. Evidence of
cannibalism is found in all places on earth but the place where it is most
rare—Africa.
Sources: Alden T.
Vaughan, American Genesis: Captain John Smith and the Founding of Virginia
(1975); Gary B. Nash, “Image of the Indian in the Southern Colonial Mind,”
William and Mary Quarterly 29, no. 2 (Apr. 1972); Edmund Sears Morgan, American
Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975); Alden T.
Vaughan, “Expulsion of the Salvages [sic],” William and Mary Quarterly 35, no.
1 (Jan. 1978).
Lie #5 - Blacks
were cursed black by God.
The so-called
Curse of Ham (or Hamitic Myth) was derived from the Biblical story of Noah
(Genesis 9:21-27), and it formed the core of the racial belief system among Jews
in the centuries before the time of Jesus. Even though the characters in
Genesis carry no racial identity, Talmudic rabbis made up a new version of the
Noah episode, in which God curses the offspring of Noah’s son Ham to be
black-skinned. These Jews further say that Ham (the cursed one) is the father
of the Black Race! The reason that the Jews created this extremely racist myth
is an economic one. Jewish traders of the Middle Ages dominated the early slave
trade, and at first did not distinguish their victims on the basis of race.
Over time, the skill, intelligence, and strength of Africans were seen as more
marketable than the abilities of all others, and a premium was placed on their
sale. We see this today in sports. When seeking their new stars, college
basketball, football, baseball, and track recruiters scour the Black inner
cities, not the White suburbs. The ancient rabbis, enjoying the financial
benefits of the slave trade, distorted the original story of Noah in order to
justify the new racial focus on the “God-cursed” African—thus sanctifying the
African-centered slave trade.
Spread far and
wide as divine prophecy by the Jewish slave merchants and their beneficiaries
in the clergy, slavery would ultimately be universally believed to be the lot of
the Black African. Through the millennium, the so-called Curse of Ham was
easily adopted by all the major religions and has been used liberally whenever
circumstances required the aggressive assertion of White Supremacy.
Source: The
Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews: How Jews Gained Control of the
Black American Economy, Volume 2 (2010).
Lie #6 - The
United States government has helped Blacks succeed.
The Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) took hundreds of known actions against Black
advancement organizations during the civil rights era—including the use of
agent provocateurs, saboteurs, wiretapping and the planting of false rumors and
disinformation. The FBI is also a prime suspect in the murders of key Black
leaders and activists. But this subversive government activity is part of a
LONG HISTORY of U.S. government oppression of “non-whites” that includes the
sanctioning of the slave trade and the destruction of the Indian Nations.
And though it
allowed the building of a giant monument in the Nation’s Capitol to the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr. in 2011, the government treated him far differently when
he was alive. The long-time leader of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, directed that a
letter be sent to the civil rights leader, pressuring him to commit suicide!
The 1968 U.S. government letter was addressed to “KING”:
“You know you are
… a colossal fraud and an evil, vicious one at that. You could not believe in
God ... . King, like all frauds your end is approaching … . King, there is only
one thing left for you to do. You know what it is . . You better take it before
your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation.”
Hoover, the top
law enforcement official in America, was not deranged. Dr. King, with his Poor
People’s Campaign and support for the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike, was
signaling his interest in pursuing an economic agenda for his people. Indeed,
any Black organization or movement that adopts an economic focus and encourages
Black participation in manufacturing, trade, and commerce is automatically seen
as a threat to the established economic order. His murder soon followed.
Sources:
“COINTELPRO Reading Room,” http://www.noi.org/cointelpro/; Council on Black
Internal Affairs, The American Directory of Certified Uncle Toms (2002);
Reclamation Project, How White Folks Got So Rich (2012).
Lie #7 - Jews
built the pyramids.
There are
hundreds of pyramids on the earth, but the Great Pyramids of Egypt are
considered the first of the Seven Wonders of the World. The White-skinned Jews
that now inhabit Palestine have erroneously claimed that according to the Bible
their ancestors were slaves in Egypt under Pharaoh and that they built the
pyramids. But several Jewish scholars like Prof. Shlomo Sand, Arthur Koestler,
and others have already dealt a fatal blow to the claim that the Caucasian Jews
have ANY connection whatsoever to those Hebrews of the King James Bible. These
scholars have proven that the White Israelis are descendants of a tribe of
Europeans called the Khazars, a 6th-century people who converted to Judaism
long, long after the pyramids were built, and long after the Bible was written.
And, according to Biblical scholars, the pyramids were built at least 1,000
years before there is even any mention of any Hebrews.
Shlomo Sand, a professor
at Tel Aviv University in Israel, wrote a revealing book in 2008 titled The
Invention of the Jewish People, wherein he states: “The ancient Egyptians kept
meticulous records of every event, and there is a great deal of documentation
about the kingdom’s political and military life … . Yet there is not a single
mention of any ‘Children of Israel’ who lived in Egypt, or rebelled against it,
or emigrated from it at any time.”
Source: Shlomo
Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People (2008); Arthur Koestler, The
Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and Its Heritage (1976).
Lie #8 - Blacks
sold other Blacks into slavery.
One of the most
unseemly manifestations of Black self-hatred is the often violently held belief
that 500 years ago Africans sold other Africans into centuries of slavery. It
is erroneously believed that after thousands of years of African life, Blacks
all of a sudden collapsed into internecine strife and started killing each
other, selling their fellow kinsmen to foreigners for profit.
The fact is that
Portuguese “explorers” mastered a pattern of European conquest that is 6,000
years old. They deliberately created mixed-race subgroups with the intention of
using them to capture and enslave the native African populations. Arriving on
the Cape Verde islands in the late 1400s, Jewish slave merchants kidnapped and
raped African women, and the mixed-race offspring, called lançados, were raised
on the islands as European Jews, practicing Judaism and respecting Jewish
authority. These lançados were sent into the African mainland to set up an
international “trading post” to at first market the fine fabrics being produced
by the Africans. But soon they turned on their hosts and began trading in Black
human beings. The lançados were strictly trained in the Jewish family business
of slave-dealing. It was these half-breed, mixed-race (or mulatto)
“half-ricans” who infiltrated the Black African communities, seeking to satisfy
the European lust for Black labor.
Historian Walter
Rodney described these “AFRICAN” slave traders thus: “Many of the private
traders were mulattoes, already linked to the Africans by blood, and there were
those who had become so integrated into African life that they wore tribal
tattoos. It was these who were the authentic lançados, literally ‘those who had
thrown themselves’ among the Africans.”
Source: Walter
Rodney, A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545-1800 (Oxford, 1970); Tingba
Muhammad, “Did African Slave Traders Sell Us Out?”
The Final Call, June 14,
2012; Tingba Muhammad, “Echoes of Mr. Yakub after Patmos,”
The Final Call, June 28, 2012.
Lie #9 - There
was no slavery in the NORTH.
The idea that the
Northern states were against slavery is a complete falsehood. The newspapers
are filled with ads buying and selling African people. The only reason that
slavery was more widespread in the South was not because Northern Whites loved
Black people, but because the warmer climate and flatter terrain in the South
allowed for more varieties of produce to be grown in a much larger area. Simply
put: the farther South one goes, the higher the concentration of Black slaves.
The early
Massachusetts legislature was the first to officially welcome the African slave
trade; in fact, many “proper Bostonians” built their fortunes upon that
despicable enterprise. Massachusetts became America’s leading slave-ship
builder and sent one expedition after another into Africa to rape, pillage, and
plunder her Black humanity. Gangs of chained Africans were landed on the docks
of Boston and Salem by white Massachusetts merchants and auctioned alongside
hogs, lumber, and casks of cheese, destined for a life of hopeless bondage.
Slaveholders in
the North were exceedingly brutal and in New York “inappropriate and disruptive
kindness” was actually against the law. Any master “forgiving, making up, or
compromising” with slaves was severely fined in New York. Wall Street (which
has now enslaved ALL of America) was notorious in the 1600s for its African and
Indian slave auctions.
Source: The
Reclamation Project, The Hidden History of Massachusetts (2003); The Hidden
History of New York (1998); NOI, Jews Selling Blacks, pp. 46-48 (RI & CT),
58 & 59 (RI), 109-111 (NY), 36-37, 57, 106& 107 (PA).
Lie #10 -
Columbus discovered America.
Before
Christopher Columbus was commissioned to sail the ocean blue, he was sailing
the ocean BLACK. That is, he was sailing the coast of Africa in the slave
trade. One person who talked to Columbus said that he sounded like “a practiced
slave dealer.” It is in Africa where he probably learned about the “New World”
and how the ocean currents might get him there. Africans had long traded
amicably with the Indigenous peoples of America. Columbus himself found
evidence during his voyages that he was not the first to “discover” anything.
Columbus was told
by the peoples of Espanola (Haiti) of Black men who had appeared on the island
before him and they showed him the lances that they had left there. The tips of
the lances were of a metal—an alloy of gold—that was prevalent in African
Guinea. Columbus visited Trinidad, where the sailors noticed the colorful
symmetrically patterned cotton handkerchiefs of the indigenous Indian cultures,
which the Native peoples called almayzar. They were all much the same in color,
style, and use as the headscarves and waistbands used in Guinea.
The 17 Olmec
colossal heads of Mexico are massive sculptures crafted from large basalt
boulders. The heads date from at least before 900 BC and are a distinctive
feature of the Olmec civilization. All portray men with wide African noses and
full African lips in apparent honor of those travelers that had visited them.
In actuality, Columbus is a latecomer to the “discovery” game. His voyages were
only notable for the total destruction he unleashed upon the Indigenous peoples
of Africa and America.
Sources: Ivan Van
Sertima, They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
(1976; 2003); Nation of Islam, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews,
Volume 1 (1991).
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